Doctorate in science

Red de Biología y Conservación de Vertebrados

Instituto de Ecologia A.C., Xalapa, Mexico

2023 - 2019

• Thesis: Evaluating Carnivora mammal’s agonistic interactions with co-occurrence patterns and camera traps
• CONAHCYT grant

Master of Science

Red de Biología y Conservación de Vertebrados

Instituto de Ecologia A.C., Xalapa, Mexico

2019 - 2017

• Thesis: Interaction of Canis latrans and Vulpes macrotis in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve.
• CONAHCYT grant

Bsc Biology

Biology Department

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

2015 - 2009

• Thesis: Influence of an Amazonian salt marsh on the fauna richness in the middle Caquetá river basin, Colombia.

Modeling distribution, abundance, demography and population dynamics using R, JAGS and NIMBLE

Ciudad Real, Spain

Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM)

2024

• Instructors: Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, María Victoria Jiménez-Franco, José Jiménez, Marc Kéry, José Lahoz-Monfort and Michael Schaub
• 30 hours

The Data Scientists Toolbox

Online course

Johns Hopkins University and offered through Coursera

2020

• Jeff Leek Roger Peng, Brian Caffo

R Programming

Online course

Johns Hopkins University and offered through Coursera

2020

• Jeff Leek Roger Peng, Brian Caffo

Introduction to Mammalogy

Bucaramanga, Colombia

Universidad Industrial de Santander

2012

• Instructors: Hugo Mantilla Meluk
• 9 hours

Postdoctoral Research Associate

N/A

Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA.

Current - 2024

• Assist Forest Wildlife Ecology and Management team
• Assist in the analysis of data from wildlife management faculty research.
• Write, assist, and generate scientific publications for the wildlife management team.
• Supporting undergraduate and graduate wildlife management students.
• Support writing of research grants.

Management and control of invasive species: The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

N/A

Servicio al mundo y Center for Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES). Santiago de Chile, Chile

2023 - 2023

• Analysis of the data from European rabbit camera traps on Juan Fernandez Island, Chile.
• Camera trap data processing
• Analysis of hierarchical models of occupancy and abundance of the European rabbit
• Advise and train undergraduate students for the use of species abundance and co-occurrence models

Monitoring of Jaguar (Panthera onca) in the departments of Guaviare and Putumayo, Colombia

N/A

World Wide Fund for Nature Colombia - WWF Colombia

2023 - 2023

• Contract to develop occupancy models for monitoring the use of corridors by Jaguar and other mammals species at Guaviare, Colombia
• Development of species occupancy models
• Selection and organization of environmental variables related to jaguar occupation
• Development of hierarchical community models under a Bayesian approach, for species monitoring
• Graphic and cartographic outputs of the models
• Support for the interpretation of the results obtained

Biologist

N/A

Yoluka NGO, Biodiversity and conservation foundation. Bogota, Colombia

2017 - 2016

• Project formulation and management

Biologist

N/A

Yoluka NGO, Biodiversity and conservation foundation. Bogota, Colombia

2017 - 2017

• Formulation of the Environmental Management Plan for the Conservation Strategy “Laguna del Cacique Guatavita and Cuchilla de Peñas Blancas”. Logistical, technical, and scientific support for the project.
• Follow up and consolidate the information generated by the programs and projects associated with the formulation of the Environmental Management Plan.

Support professional

N/A

Yoluka NGO, Biodiversity and conservation foundation. Bogota, Colombia

2016 - 2015

• Regional protected area declaration process and delimitation of the Mamapacha-Bijagual páramo complex as a land management and conservation measure for endangered species such as the Andean bear, yellow-winged parakeet and Andean duck.
• Support the development of social, economic, and environmental technical studies.
• Consultation of technical studies and information gathering.
• Analyze information to support technical and legal studies, including the land, social, and environmental components of the territory.

Mammalogist

N/A

Yoluka NGO, Biodiversity and conservation foundation. Bogota, Colombia

2016 - 2016

• Perform the characterization of the Chiroptera community in Poligrow’s palm plantations and associated natural cover,
• Evaluation and monitoring of focal groups as biological controllers and indicators of ecological health of Poligrow’s palm crops in Mapiripán Meta.
• Present the data in a pre-established format.
• Deliver the reference collection of Chiroptera.
• Carry out the taxonomic determination and processing of biological material.
• Prepare and submit a scientific article derived from the information collected in the contract.

Encoder

N/A

CORPOEDUCACIÓN, Bogota, Colombia

2015 - 2015

• -Coding of open-ended responses for “Saber pro” 11 Calendar A, Natural Sciences, colombia -Perform the coding process of the assigned responses, objectively and conscientiously applying the criteria established in the Coding Guidelines.

Field Assistant

N/A

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

2015 - 2015

• Ituango Hydroelectric Power Project EPM, Antioquia, colombia
• Mammalogist Field Assistant

Wildlife Professional

N/A

Yoluka NGO, Biodiversity and conservation foundation. Bogota, Colombia

2015 - 2015

• Regional protected area declaration process and delimitation of the Mamapacha-Bijagual paramo complex as a land management and conservation measure for endangered species such as the Andean bear, yellow-winged parakeet and Andean duck.
• Fauna characterization from validation and adjustment
• Unifying biotic information against lists of fauna (discriminated in taxonomic classes), where levels of diversity, conservation, and protection status are identified.
• Characterization of paramo mammals through photo-trapping in the area of jurisdiction of CORPOCHIVOR.

When the Wild Things Are: Defining Mammalian Diel Activity and Plasticity

Science Advances

In Review

N/A

• Devarajan K., Fidino M., Farris Z.J., Gerber B.D., Andrade-Ponce, G. and other 212 authors

Wilderness areas maintain mammal assemblage in subtropical mountain forests

Biodiversity and Conservation

https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02932-8

2024

• Bardavid S., Andrade-Ponce G., Politi N., Rivera L.

Socioecological Assessment of Mammal Assemblages in Small Oil-Palm Plantations in a Highly Deforested Region in Mexico

Tropical Conservation Science

https://doi.org/10.1177/19400829231169977

2023

• Franquesa-Soler M., Ocampo-Saure F., Mora F., Andrade-Ponce G., Andresen, E.

Assessing microhabitat, landscape features and intraguild relationships in the occupancy of the enigmatic and threatened Andean tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus pardinoides) in the cloud forests of northwestern Colombia

PLOS ONE

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288247

2023

• Cepeda-Duque J.C., Andrade-Ponce G., Montes-Rojas A., Rendón-Jaramillo, López-Velasco, Arango-Correa, López-Barrera, Mazariegos, Lizcano, Link, de Oliveira

Expanding the frontiers of camera-trapping in Colombia: application of the “Mostela” system to gain knowledge on small non-volant mammals from an Andean cloud forest

Mammalia

https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0033

2023

• Cepeda-Duque J. C., Andrade-Ponce G., Arango-Correa E., Mazariegos L., Hofmeester T. R., Ramírez-Chaves H. E.

Neotropical Mammals: Hierarchical analysis of Occupancy and Abundance

Springer Book

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39566-6#toc

2023

• Mandujano S., Naranjo E., Andrade-Ponce G.

Chapter 15 - Overview of Hierarchical models and future Directions in the Study of Neotropical Mammals

Chapter at Neotropical Mammals: Hierarchical analysis of Occupancy and Abundance

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39566-6_15

2023

• Andrade-Ponce G.

Chapter 14 - Occupancy Modeling reveal that landscape scale drives habitat use by White-teiled deer in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biospehere Reserve, Mexico

Chapter at Neotropical Mammals: Hierarchical analysis of Occupancy and Abundance

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39566-6_14

2023

• Mandujano S., Andrade-Ponce G., Zavaleta A., López-Tellez C.

Chapter 1 - Neotropical Mammals and the Analysis of Occupancy and Abundance

Chapter at Neotropical Mammals: Hierarchical analysis of Occupancy and Abundance

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39566-6_1

2023

• Mandujano S., Naranjo E., Andrade-Ponce G.

A framework to interpret co-occurrence patterns from camera trap data: The case of the gray fox, the bobcat, and the eastern cottontail rabbit in a tropical dry habitat

Journal of zoology

https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13002

2022

• Andrade-Ponce G., Mandujano S., Dáttilo W., Farías-González V., Jiménez J., Velásquez-C K., Zavaleta A.

Does patch Quality drive arboreal mammal assemblages in fragmented rain forest?

Perspectives in Ecology

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2020.12.004

2021

• Cudney-Valenzuela S., Arroyo-Rodríguez V., Andresen E., Toledo-Aceves T., Mora Ardila F., Andrade-Ponce G., Mandujano S.

Modelos de Ocupación para datos de cámaras trampa: de los conceptos a la interpretación

Mammalogy Notes

https://doi.org/10.47603/mano.v7n1.200

2021

• Andrade-Ponce G., Cepeda-Duque J. C., Mandujano S., Velásquez-C K. L., Lizcano D. J., Gómez-Valencia B.

Coexistencia de Vulpes macrotis y Canis latrans (Carnivora: Canidae) en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Mapimí, México

Revista Mexicana de biodiversidad

https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.2973

2020

• Andrade-Ponce G., Gallina S., Gómez-Valencia B., Lira-Noriega A.

Interaction between Ground Squirrels with rattlesnakes in arid zones

Therya Notes

https://doi.org/10.12933/therya_notes-20-4

2020

• Andrade-Ponce G., Montero-Bagatella SM, Duran-Antonio J., González-Romero A., Gallina S.

Registros de mamíferos terrestres en un salado natural y sus inmediaciones en el Resguardo Indígena Nonuya Villazul, departamento del Amazonas-Colombia

Mammalogy Notes

https://doi.org/10.47603/manovol6n1.mn0107

2020

• Andrade-Ponce G.

Uso de bebederos artificiales por pequeños roedores en un bosque tropical seco en Oaxaca, México

Mammalogy Notes

https://doi.org/10.47603/mano.v6n2.179

2020

• Hernández-Gómez C.A., Andrade-Ponce G., Velásquez-C K.L., Mandujano S.

Notable altitudinal range expansion of Lontra longicaudis (Carnivora: Mustelidae) in Colombian Paramos

Therya

https://doi.org/10.12933/therya-17-429

2017

• Andrade-Ponce G.*, Angarita-Sierra T.

Estado del conocimiento y prioridades de investigación sobre las familias Canidae, Mephitidae y Procyonidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) en Colombia

Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales

https://doi.org/10.18257/raccefyn.327

2016

• Andrade-Ponce G., Montaño-Salazar S.M., Riveros-Loaiza L.M., Ramírez-Chaves H.E., Suárez-Castro A.F.

Generalidades del orden Carnívora

En Los carnívoros terrestres y semiacuáticos continentales de Colombia. Guía de Campo

(PDF) Generalidades del orden Carnivora

2015

• Andrade-Ponce G., Jiménez-Ramírez J.S. , Montaño-Salazar S.M.,
  Riveros-Loaiza L.M.

Using R for Scientific Research (Fall 2024)

Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas, USA.

2024

• Guest lecturer
• Introduction to Model Selection Strategies Data visualization laboratory Feedback on student projects
• 16 hours

Wildlife Field Station (Summer 2024)

Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas, USA.

2024

• Guest lecturer
• Field station on wildlife monitoring techniques Introduction to the use of camera traps Use of sherman traps for small mammal surveys
• 24 hours

Quantitative Ecological Methods in R (Spring 2024)

Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas, USA.

2024

• Guest lecturer
• Introduction and laboratory of Occupancy models for ecological data analysis
• 6 hours

Introduction to statistics

Posgrado, Instituto de Ecología A.C

Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, Mexico

2023 - 2023

• Invited Lecturer
• Introduction to the use of R; ggplot for descriptive statistics and support in practical sessions.
• 33 hours

FototrampeoR: Organization and analysis of medium and large mammal data from camera trap data

XV Congreso Nacional de Mastozoología

Chihuahua, Mexico

2022

• Principal Lecturer
• General photo-trapping issues. Photo-trapping data organization. Relative abundance analysis and main alpha diversity indices applied to phototrapping.
• 8 hours

Photo-trapping workshop in R. Occupancy and abundance modeling.

School of Biological Sciences

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

2022

• Principal Lecturer
• Concepts and modeling of one- and two-species occupancy models. Fitting and application of hierarchical models in R language. Support of doubts in R language.
• 20 hours

Photo-trapping workshop in R. Fauna-habitat analysis in GIS-R

School of Biological Sciences

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

2022

• Invited Lecturer
• Concepts, evaluation and analysis of spatial independence in camera trap studies. Support to students in the use of R
• 20 hours

Photo-trapping workshop in R. Diversity analysis

School of Biological Sciences

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

2022

• Invited Lecturer
• Use of multi-species occupancy models to estimate richness, limitations and advantages. Support to students in the use of R
• 20 hours

Photo-trapping workshop in R. Basics: Photo Organization and Analysis

School of Biological Sciences

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

2022

• Invited Lecturer
• Experiences and suggestions for camera trap sampling design. Support for data organization and R language handling.
• 20 hours

Occupancy models for the study of wildlife distribution and habitat use.

Faculty of Biological Sciences

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

2022

• Principal Lecturer
• Course management. General concepts of occupancy models applied to the study of the distribution and use of wildlife habitat. Application of 1- and 2-species models in R language. Fitting and validation of 1-species occupancy models.
• 15 hours

Photo-trapping workshop in R. Basics: Photo Organization and Analysis

School of Biological Sciences

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

2021

• Invited Lecturer
• Experiences and suggestions for camera trap sampling design. Support for data organization and R language handling.
• 20 hours

Phototrapping in R: Data Organization and Analysis

Escuela de Métodos

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico

2020

• Invited Lecturer
• Support and introduction to camtrapR functions for phototrapping data analysis.
• 16 hours

Photo trapping workshop in R

School of Biological Sciences

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

2020

• Invited Lecturer
• Experiences and suggestions for the design of camera trap sampling. Support for data organization and R language handling.
• 20 hours

Photo trapping workshop in R

School of Biological Sciences

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

2020

• Invited Lecturer
• Experiences and suggestions for the design of camera trap sampling. Support for data organization and R language handling.
• 20 hours

Techniques and Methods for the Study and Conservation of Wildlife

Red de biología y conservación de vertebrados

Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, Mexico

2019

• Invited Lecturer
• Talk about experience in carnivore co-occurrence studies in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, Durango, Mexico.
• 1 hour

Committee Member - Ph.D. | Taxonomic diversity, population dynamics and functional connectivity for groups of vertebrates in the environmental mosaic of the protection area of the Amaní reservoir (Caldas, Colombia)

Estefania Espitia Martinez, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas

Manizales, Caldas, Colombia

Current - 2024

Committee Member - Ph.D. | Influence Of Invasive Vegetation on Mammalian And Herpetofauna Communities Across A South Texas Landscape

Duston R. Duffie, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Kingsville, Texas, USA

Current - 2024

Committee Member - Undergraduate | Spatiotemporal segregation and prey availability in two wild canids (Canis latrans and Urocyon cinereargenteus) in an anthropized landscape of the Mexican highlands.

Mariela Cecilia Fernandez Morales, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

2024 - 2023

Thesis evaluation - M.Sc | Effects of predation and food availability on the spatiotemporal dynamics of three canid species in the Chihuahuan Desert.

Camila Yoeli Diaz Ibarra, Instituto de Ecologia A.C. (INECOL)

Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

2024

Major advisor - Undergraduate | Time independence of records from camera traps: Effect on the estimation of activity and recording frequency

Alan Pastor Suarez Lopez, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

2023 - 2022

Thesis evaluation - Undergraduate | The Home of the Jaguar an analysis of occupancy in the forests and savannahs of the Colombian plains in dry and wet seasons.

María Camila Diaz Corzo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Bogota, Colombia

2020

Methods to estimate European rabbit use intensity on Robinson Crusoe Island: Royle-Nichols vs. IAR

I Chilean Congress of Zoology

Talca, Chile

2024

• Valenzuela-M V., Andrade-Ponce G., Riquelme C., Correa-Cuadros J.P., Duclos M., Simone K., Vilches-Villa M.J., Cabello J., Jaksic F.

Distribution and abundance of Oryctolagus cuniculus on Robinson Crusoe Island using camera trap data.

XXIX Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Chile

Olmue, Chile

2023

• Valenzuela-M V., Andrade-Ponce G., Riquelme C., Correa-Cuadros J.P., Jaksic F.

From competition to patterns: exploring the relationship between ecological theory and co-occurrence patterns in carnivorous mammals

XV National Congress of Mammalogy

Chihuahua, Mexico

2023

• Andrade-Ponce G.P., Morales Góngora Y., Hernández C., Suárez-López A., López-Tello E., Ocampo-Saure F., Avendaño-Díaz M., Castelazo-Calva V., Cepeda-Duque J.C., Duran- Antonio J.

Framework for interpreting co-occurrence patterns of camera trap data: the case of the gray fox, the bobcat and the cottontail rabbit in a dry tropical habitat

XV National Congress of Mammalogy

Chihuahua, Mexico

2023

• Andrade-Ponce G., Mandujano S., Dáttilo W., Farías-González V., Jiménez J., Velásquez-Carrillo K., Zavaleta A.

Co-ocurrence of Vulpes macrotis and Canis latrans in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

III Symposium of Small Carnivores, III Colombian congress of MAmmalogy and V Colombian Congress of Zoology

Bogota, Colombia

2018

• Andrade-Ponce G., Gallina-Tessaro S., Gómez-Valencia B., Lira-Noriega A.

State of Knowledge and distribution of the Canidae and Procyonidae Families in Colombia

II Symposium of Small Carnivores, IV Colombian Congress of Zoology

Cartagena, Colombia

2014

• Andrade-Ponce G., Suárez-Castro A.F, Ramirez-Chaves H., Montaño-Salazar S., Riveros Loaiza L.M.

Award for academic excellence Best Master’s thesis

Asosiación Mexicana de Mastozoología (AMMAC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ibdidFYyM

2020

• Recognition granted by the Mexican Association of Mammalogy for the best master’s thesis in its 2020 edition, first place

Scholarship awarded for Ph.D. studies at the Instituto de Ecología A.C.

Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencia y Tecnología (CONAHCyT),

N/A

2019

Effect of Grazing and Co-Occurrence Species on the Occupancy of Carnivore Mammals at the Mapimi Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

The Rufford Foundation

Jessica Durán Antonio - Effect of Grazing and Co-Occurrence Species on the Occupancy of Carnivore Mammals at the Mapimi Biosphere Reserve, Mexico - The Rufford Foundation

2018

• Acquired with Jessica Duran-Antonio. Total funding of ESP 3,753

Scholarship for academic excellence at the V Colombian Congress of Zoology

Asosiación Colombiana de Zoología

N/A

2018

• Scholarship awarded by the Colombian Zoology Association for the work “Co-occurrence of Vulpes macrotis and Canis latrans in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, Mexico”

Pandi’s mushroom tongue salamander (Bolitoglossa pandi)

Mohamed bin Zayed Species

Pandi’s mushroom tongue salamander Conservation Case Study

2017

• Acquired with Teddy Angarita. Total funding of USD 12,400

Scholarship awarded for Magister studies at the Instituto de Ecología A.C.

Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencia y Tecnología (CONAHCyT),

N/A

2017